LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles claps after his team forced the Florida Gators to punt during the second quarter of their game at Tiger Stadium.

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Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannett.com

LSU and Iowa spent a day at the beach here Monday amid the litany of Outback Bowl events prior to the football game at noon on Wednesday.

When LSU coach Les Miles thinks of football, he does not think of sand and ocean and carefree times, though. He thinks of Michigan Bo Schembechler, for whom he played offensive guard in the 1970s and where he later served as an assistant in the '80s and '90s against Big Ten teams like Ohio State and Michigan State and Iowa. These were no days at the beach.

His No. 14 Tigers (9-3) play on New Year's Day against Iowa (8-4) - only the third Big Ten team Miles will coach against ...